maggie is back in the pool

she didn't want to swim yet this summer. every time she almost got in, she'd scream and demand i put her PJs back on. no explanation as to why. finally today it was SO hot, and the pool was SO warm, that i told her if she just came in with me and gave it a try i would let her watch TV. i'm not above bribery. haha.

so she agreed, got in, and didn't get out for hours! hooray! she swam with her little floaty and had a fantastic time. she got back in after dinner too. she's just adorable in there, bicycling her little legs under the water. at one point she and nina were playing some kind of mermaid game and they were supposed to be going somewhere. someone asked, 'where are you going?' and maggie paused, then answered, 'talahasee!'
haha!

also, nina is reading the witches by roald dahl right now. she LOVES it. i thought it would be too scary for her, but no, she can't get enough. it's really a hard book (i looked it up online and it's 5th to 6th grade level), but she keeps shocking me with the number of words she knows! she has read some of it silently to herself, but mostly we're taking turns reading it aloud because there are probably a dozen words per page that she doesn't know. but she does amazingly, even when reading things that the grand high witch says in her accent (she'll say something like, "vitches of inkland!" instead of "witches of england!" and nina does an amazing job with it.) anyway, she's so excited that it's a scary book because she loves scary. she is totally grandma's little girl!